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The price of gold has dropped by Rs 500 per tola in the domestic market on Sunday.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the yellow bullion is being traded at Rs 112, 300 per tola today. It was traded at Rs 112, 800 per tola on Friday.

Meanwhile, tejabi gold is being traded at Rs 111, 750 per tola. It was traded at Rs 112, 250 per tola.

Similarly, the silver is being traded at Rs 1,465 per tola today.

A high-level team of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is visiting Nepal on Sunday at the invitation of the ruling party CPN (Maoist Center).

The team led by Yuan Jiajun, who is also a politburo member and party secretary of Chongqing city, is arriving today.

The Yuan team is coming to Nepal via Singapore and Sri Lanka.

While in Nepal, the Yuan’s team will hold meetings with top leaders of major political parties and visit historical sites.

A Central Committee meeting of the CPC had made a decision to send the Yuan’s team to three countries from July 16 to 25.

Five officials of the Foreign Ministry of China arrived in Kathmandu on the Air China flight.

Earlier, a team of Maoist leaders led by former speaker and Maoist leader Agni Prasad Sapkota visited China at the invitation of CPC.

After that, a team of lawmakers led by National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina also visited China.

The CPC leaders’ visit to Nepal at a time when preparations are being made for Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit to China has been seen as meaningful.

Though Prime Minister Dahal is scheduled to visit China in September, the official date has not been fixed yet.

Prime Minister Dahal has already directed foreign minister and finance minister to fix the agenda for the visit.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Embassy in Nepal are also making necessary preparations for Prime Minister Dahal’s visit, according to a source.

During PM Dahal’s visit, China is preparing to hold a discussion on the draft of the BRI project implementation.

Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning of Karnali Province government Bedraj Singh has directed the office chiefs of Jumla district for budget implementation.

Minister Singh, who reached Jumla on Saturday in the course of monitoring of different projects including bridge, building and health infrastructures, urged them to achieve targets determined by Karnali Province government in implementation of the budget of current fiscal year 2080/81.

He said that the provincial government was committed to address the problems put forth by the office chiefs.

Sharing the information about the activities to be carried out by provincial offices located in Jumla district, Minister Singh added, "Budget of Karnali Province government has already been passed. The province government would get budget authority immediately. Office chiefs should come to office regularly and should be committed to complete works of assigned projects as well as to sign contracts for any project within November."

He also suggested the office chiefs and staffers not to compromise in service delivery to the people and maintain good governance.

Similarly, Chief District Officer of Jumla, Jay Kumar Ghimire, said he would intensify his role towards facilitating the works of office chiefs, their regularity as well as maintain peace and security and good governance in the district.

Minister Singh inspected Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, Karnali Technical School, building of Federation of Nepali Journalists, under construction bridge at Patarasi Rural Municipality-5 in Jumla.

Police have arrested 10 persons for their alleged involvement in torching houses at Guthichour Rural Municipality and Chandannath Municipality of Jumla district on Sunday.

According to the Information Officer at the District Police Office, Jumla, Dharma Raj Joshi, 10 persons have been arrested suspecting their involvement in the incident. 

However, police have not revealed the identity of the arrested persons.

An unidentified group had torched six houses at Guthichour, one house at Chandannath Municipality and a parked tractor at 2:00 am on Saturday.

Chairperson of Guthichour Rural Municipality, Dan Bahadur Budha, said total seven houses-- two houses at Dhawalpur Village, one house at Bauli Village, one at Dhudakhoj Village, one at Mathillo Deharbijur Village and two at Khalla ward were set on fire.

A 28-year-old man was shot dead in Tarahara Jungle of Sunsari along the Dharan-Tarahara road section on Friday.

It has been learnt that Rohit Chaudhary of Biratnagar Sub-Metropolitan City-5, who was heading towards Biratnagar from Dhankuta, was shot and robbed by a gang of unidentified persons at the Charkoshe Jungle of Tarahara.

Incapacitated in the attack, Chaudhary breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences.

DSP Raj Kumar Rai, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Sunsari, said that they are searching for the miscreants.

The National Youth Federation Nepal, youth wing of the main opposition CPN-UML, took out a torch rally in the Capital on Friday demanding stern action against those involved in the gold smuggling.

During the torch rally organized in New Baneshwor, the youth leaders demanded resignation of Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha.

Saying that the gold is being smuggled from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), they chanted slogans against Home Minister Shrestha demanding his resignation on moral grounds.

The Supreme Court has also quashed the habeas corpus writ petition in the Lalita Niwas land grab case.

A joint bench of Justices Prakash Kumar Dhungana and Nahkul Subedi scrapped the petition filed by the four prisoners.

Secretary Krishna Bahadur Raut, former election commissioner Sudhir Kumar Sah, Bhatbhateni Supermarket Chairman Min Bahadur Gurung and former employee of Land Revenue Office Dharma Prasad Gautam filed a petition at the Supreme Court after the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) started an investigation by arresting them.

Secretary Krishna Bahadur Raut, Secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, was released this afternoon.

The Supreme Court has issued an order to release Raut. Secretary Raut will not be allowed to leave Nepal until the case is settled

The apex court directed the police to release Raut on a general date and continue the investigation in the Lalita Niwas land grab case.

The Supreme Court's earlier order to carry out an investigation against the 17 people involved in the same case by keeping them out of jail has also been scrapped.

Later, the CIB filed a vacate application at the Supreme Court against them.

Now, they will also remain in jail until the case is over.

The initial hearing over the case was started on June 30.

One June 28, those who were arrested in connection with the Lalita Niwas land grab case filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court arguing that they were nabbed without any reason.

In the same case, Kaladhar Deuja, Surendra Kapali and Hupendra Mani KC were released later owing to the stay order.

The 17 people arrested in the same incident are being investigated for forging documents and organized crime.

The Supreme Court has issued an order to release Krishna Bahadur Raut, Secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

A single bench of Justice Nahakul Subedi on Friday also barred Secretary Raut from going abroad without the court’s order.

The court also reminded the earlier decision of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority taken on February 5, 2020 to not initiate a corruption case against Raut.  

Raut was recently arrested on the charge of forging the government signature and documents in the course of registering the public land into the names of individuals.

Then, Raut filed a habeas corpus writ in the court.